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I have had the same university office more or less for 20 years and I never remember it being as hot as it was today indoors. Nearly melted while on online meetings. And now thunderstorms are imminently due!

"Academic" is just a fancy job title for Elsevier's content creators.

When you find that perfect spot

Viber was always the messaging app in the shadow of WhatsApp. We use it for some family groups but hardly anyone else seems to. Anyway, this should kill it off for good

They’re calling it the least comprehensible achievement of all time.

Technically, they’re Remains now.

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

“Could” is (hopefully) doing a lot of heavy lifting here, as they say. Reminds me of my favourite abstract ever, from a paper examining possible time-travelling particles

Listening to @kermodeandmayo.bsky.social talk about Lost in Translation (a wonderful movie) and thinking it couldn’t be made now as the two main characters would spend their time looking at their phones and never notice each other

On a hot bus in Cork and reminded that we have three bus times: - the time the timetable says the bus will come - the time the stop says the bus will come - the time the bus comes AND THEY ARE COMPLETELY UNRELATED!

On the day of his resignation, sharing my most viral joke tweet from the day after his election as PM

We would all watch a horror movie where the cast of Friends strayed into Deliverance, right? The duelling banjos vs Smelly Cat scene alone would be iconic

You shall not [yawn] pass…oh look just go

The perfect Father’s Day card tbf

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If Trump stuck two french fries in his nose and said he's going to tell Westeros to invade Narnia, Fox would devote 10 hours a day to the Narnian threat and the New York Times would run articles headlined "President Considers Expanding Conflict Zone; Critics Raise Questions"

What an appalling headline and idea

Trump embraces the green agenda?

The MOOG 4 was Brian Eno’s favorite synthesiser

Keir Starmer in a desperate bid to appeal to the average brit by announcing on a Saturday night he's sick of it and doesn't want to go into work on Monday

Paws

Future generations won’t ask what happened. They’ll ask who allowed this.

“Greenwatergate” 😂😂

But of course

Meeting in Powerscourt Hotel in Wicklow this August “I’d say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure”

Sometimes it’s best not to ask too many questions

If AI designed a cartoon villain for a kids movie

A potent lesson they will still refuse to learn from

Remembered a great joke I saw on Twitter: My boss called me into his office to say I’m spending too much time on social media. Wait, wait, he’s saying something else now….

Parks and Wreck

Hoovering it up will only make it angry. Nature abhors a vacuum.

A shocking and depressing thread

The World Bollard Association discover Galway nightlife. Not a sentence I thought I'd ever type.

Nanobubbles? Notions.

In Dublin it’s Bloomsday. In Washington it’s Algal Bloomsday, but at least it’s green!

Trump said the repairs would cost $1.8 million. It ended up costing $14 million. The company doing the repairs got a no-bid contract that baked in a 20% profit margin. The typical federal construction contract profit margin is 6% to 12%. Where’s the uproar about waste, fraud, and abuse now?

I honestly thought Curacao was a blue liqueur you got in dodgy cocktails on sun holidays until they played in the World Cup last night. Apparently it’s an island off Venezuela with a population of 150,000 that earned its place while Ireland did not. Who says soccer can’t teach you stuff?

Cool Cork evening sky

With the King of Cheese @akellyucc.bsky.social at David Gray.

Trump's UFC birthday party begins at 8pm tonight. Beneath this metal structure. In this weather.

A Microsoft product that could have a catastrophic impact on humanity? Well that’s an appalling Vista.

Great concert at City Hall in Cork last night as the Cork Concert Orchestra played the movie music of Williams, Zimmer, Morricone and more

An AI just reposted my post giving out about AIs. 🤷‍♂️

Remembering the time I asked an Aer Lingus AI a very simple question and it became determined to cancel my flight so I ended up shouting at it in ALL CAPS